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[Jared]

> I reject SI byte units *because* they are SI/metric, not just because I'm used 
> to the original units.

Count me in the minority among geeks, but I do also. The
British system is superior to the French "innovation"
which is based on an inaccurate estimate of the distance
from the equator to the north pole through Paris. The British
system is far more intricate and interesting, both in its
history and its accuracy.

The meter was *originally* inaccurate, and remains so,
although the appearance of accuracy has lately been improved
by formulas involving the speed of light. But I'm not fooled,
not being a "dumb American" on the subject:

Rather, an informed one who has no interest in blindly following
SI/metric because I know the 200-year-old political agenda
behind it, which I still have no interest in supporting, for
the same reason that Brits and Americans rightly rejected it
in the first place. Most people who advocate metric have no
idea of its origins, and think they are irrelevant. So be it.

People who prefer to study the origins of things quickly
reject the metric system.

> Decimal is annoying. If we're going to fix units, they should be based off 
> binary or hexadecimal. At least here in the US we have binary measurements 
> for liquids (1 peck = 2 gallons = 4 pottles = 8 quarts = 16 pints = 32 cups = 
> 64 gills)

I wouldn't call it annoying -- it is designed to be simpleminded --
but it *is* arbitrary. The French did not develop metric because
of its superiority, but they have convinced a lot of people of
this fact, even though their equally innovative calendar of the
same era long ago failed.

The foot is not arbitrary, nor is it "the length of some king's
foot." It is part of an accurate measuring system based on the
extremely stable distance from the core of the earth to the
north pole, which I'm delighted to use at any opportunity.

But people have a hard time believing that the ancient Egyptian
culture knew more about the dimensions of the earth than the
fact that it was flat, and so this subject is controversial,
and drifting off-topic, and thus suffice it to say that Luke's
desire for accuracy is in line with his appreciation of the
imperial measuring system, and I agree with him on both counts.

-Jared